Message-net door
reddit / bbs

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ShooterJennings · 2017-11-27 02:25

Has anyone ever built a door that replaces a message system? Seems
like if BBSes could become modular like that, would be an interesting
concept.

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DigitalGoose · 2017-11-27 05:00

I know there was QWK, where you could download messages and use the
QWK reader offline, instead of using the BBS's message board
interface. And the QWK downloader often was a door program

(Maybe it was just for email but I could swear it was also for Message
boards too)

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hung_kwan · 2017-11-27 05:42

> Seems like if BBSes could become modular like that, would be an
interesting concept.

Yeah man, *the Unix philosophy* - *do one thing, and do it well*. That
or a framework system like python's bottle/flask/django, where one
could build the facilities one needed.

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Universal_Binary · 2017-11-27 13:10

You are correct. It was.

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phonesimon · 2017-11-27 19:10

I have been thinking about using WWIV as a door for messaging
purposes. Can't find any good way to integrate it back upstream into
the main BBS though.

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ShooterJennings · 2017-11-27 19:34

I know with wildcat I could do this but the problem is I want to get
OUT of wildcat. What I would do is have the mother bbs create a
door.sys file and make the second bbs read that and use it as the
username. Every single user could have the same password for the
message pass-thru system. So it would just read the name and login.
Set this up as a sitting telnet server and telnet into the system from
the mother bbs and then have the logoff function be "q" to quit back
to main menu... see what I mean?

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phonesimon · 2017-11-27 19:50

WWIV will take a user number from the command line and do an auto-
login over stdio. This is what I'm working with right now, the main
issue being auto-creating the users on WWIV. Trying to avoid telnet
jumps.

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NuSkooler · 2017-11-28 21:37

What kind of things are you looking for that existing (messaging)
systems don't have?

I'd love a better messaging system (than e.g. FTN style). A
distributed system is ideal in my mind: If board X goes away, as they
do, everything just keeps ticking.